Tag: Paramount Pictures

  • ‘Smile’ director Parker Finn indicators first-look take care of Paramount 

    By Express News Service

    Director Parker Finn, who made the 2022 hit horror movie ‘Smile’ signed a multi-year, first-look take care of Paramount Pictures, which additionally distributed his movie.

    While the small print of the deal are stored beneath wraps, it’s reported that Parker will probably be writing, producing and directing a set of function movies that will probably be coming beneath the horror style. A sequel of Smile can also be anticipated to be within the making.

    “Smile’s breakthrough success is a testament to Parker’s unique and fresh filmmaking, and we are thrilled that he will make Paramount his home,” Paramount president and CEO Brian Robbins stated in an announcement, as per The Hollywood Reporter.

    Paramount’s movement image group co-presidents Michael Ireland and Daria Cercek, stated, “Parker knows how to keep people on the edge of their seats and we’re happy that we get to keep scaring audiences together.”

    Smile was Parker’s directorial debut and is customized from his quick movie Laura Hasn’t Slept. The movie stars Caitlin Stacey and Lew Temple.

    Director Parker Finn, who made the 2022 hit horror movie ‘Smile’ signed a multi-year, first-look take care of Paramount Pictures, which additionally distributed his movie.

    While the small print of the deal are stored beneath wraps, it’s reported that Parker will probably be writing, producing and directing a set of function movies that will probably be coming beneath the horror style. A sequel of Smile can also be anticipated to be within the making.

    “Smile’s breakthrough success is a testament to Parker’s unique and fresh filmmaking, and we are thrilled that he will make Paramount his home,” Paramount president and CEO Brian Robbins stated in an announcement, as per The Hollywood Reporter.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Paramount’s movement image group co-presidents Michael Ireland and Daria Cercek, stated, “Parker knows how to keep people on the edge of their seats and we’re happy that we get to keep scaring audiences together.”

    Smile was Parker’s directorial debut and is customized from his quick movie Laura Hasn’t Slept. The movie stars Caitlin Stacey and Lew Temple.

  • 1968 ‘Romeo and Juliet’ director’s son slams actors for nudity lawsuit 

    By Express News Service

    We had earlier reported that the actors of Romeo and Juliet (1968), Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, have filed a lawsuit towards Paramount Pictures accusing them of sexually exploiting them and distributing nude photos of adolescent youngsters. The director of the movie, Franco Zeffirelli, will not be one of many defendants, as he handed away in 2019. 

    On behalf of Franco, his son Pippo Zeffirelli has publicly condemned the 2 lead actors’ choice to sue Paramount Pictures for the nude scene within the movie.

    In a press release Pippo gave to The Hollywood Reporter, he had written, “It is embarrassing to hear that today, 55 years after filming, two elderly actors who owe their notoriety essentially to this film wake up to declare that they have suffered an abuse that has caused them years of anxiety and emotional discomfort.” 

    He added that he believed the movie’s two producers, John Brabourne and Anthony Havelock-Allan, acquired consent kinds from the actors’ mother and father earlier than the shoot. The lawsuit filed by the actor alleges that director Zeffirelli vouched that there can be no nudity within the movie and that they might be sporting body-coloured undergarments in that exact bed room scene.

    Hussey was 15 on the time, whereas Whiting was 16. The grievance alleges that the actors had been filmed nude with out their information.

    We had earlier reported that the actors of Romeo and Juliet (1968), Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, have filed a lawsuit towards Paramount Pictures accusing them of sexually exploiting them and distributing nude photos of adolescent youngsters. The director of the movie, Franco Zeffirelli, will not be one of many defendants, as he handed away in 2019. 

    On behalf of Franco, his son Pippo Zeffirelli has publicly condemned the 2 lead actors’ choice to sue Paramount Pictures for the nude scene within the movie.

    In a press release Pippo gave to The Hollywood Reporter, he had written, “It is embarrassing to hear that today, 55 years after filming, two elderly actors who owe their notoriety essentially to this film wake up to declare that they have suffered an abuse that has caused them years of anxiety and emotional discomfort.” 

    He added that he believed the movie’s two producers, John Brabourne and Anthony Havelock-Allan, acquired consent kinds from the actors’ mother and father earlier than the shoot. The lawsuit filed by the actor alleges that director Zeffirelli vouched that there can be no nudity within the movie and that they might be sporting body-coloured undergarments in that exact bed room scene.

    Hussey was 15 on the time, whereas Whiting was 16. The grievance alleges that the actors had been filmed nude with out their information.

  • Lashana Lynch to star as Bob Marley’s spouse Rita in biopic

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: “No Time to Die” star Lashna Lynch has been tapped to play the position of Bob Marley’s spouse Rita in Paramount Pictures’ untitled biopic on the Jamaican singer.

    According to the leisure web site Deadline, actor Kingsley Ben-Adir is portraying the legendary reggae musician.

    “King Richard” helmer Reinaldo Marcus Green is directing the film from a script he co-wrote with Zach Baylin. Rita, Ziggy and Cedella Marley may even produce on behalf of banner Tuff Gong together with Robert Teitel.

    Bob Marley is credited for altering the worldwide music scene by introducing reggae style via his songs comparable to “Get Up, Stand Up,” “One Love,” “No Woman, No Cry,””Redemption Song” and “Could You Be Loved”. He died of most cancers in 1981 at age 36.

    LOS ANGELES: “No Time to Die” star Lashna Lynch has been tapped to play the position of Bob Marley’s spouse Rita in Paramount Pictures’ untitled biopic on the Jamaican singer.

    According to the leisure web site Deadline, actor Kingsley Ben-Adir is portraying the legendary reggae musician.

    “King Richard” helmer Reinaldo Marcus Green is directing the film from a script he co-wrote with Zach Baylin. Rita, Ziggy and Cedella Marley may even produce on behalf of banner Tuff Gong together with Robert Teitel.

    Bob Marley is credited for altering the worldwide music scene by introducing reggae style via his songs comparable to “Get Up, Stand Up,” “One Love,” “No Woman, No Cry,””Redemption Song” and “Could You Be Loved”. He died of most cancers in 1981 at age 36.

  • ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ wins Tom Cruise 1st USD 100 million opening

    By Associated Press

    UNITED STATES: Forget breaking the sound barrier: Tom Cruise simply flew previous a significant profession milestone.

    The 59-year-old celebrity simply received his first $100 million opening weekend with “Top Gun: Maverick.” In its first three days in North American theaters, the long-in-the-works sequel earned an estimated $124 million in ticket gross sales, Paramount Pictures stated Sunday. Including worldwide showings, its worldwide complete is $248 million.

    It’s a supersonic begin for a movie that also has the wide-open skies of Memorial Day itself to rake in much more money. According to projections and estimates, by Monday’s shut, “Top Gun: Maverick” will doubtless have over $150 million.

    “These results are ridiculous, over-the-top fantastic,” stated Chris Aronson, Paramount’s president of home distribution. “I’m happy for everyone. I’m happy for the company, for Tom, for the filmmakers.”

    Though undeniably one of many greatest stars on this planet — maybe even “the last movie star,” in keeping with numerous headlines — Cruise is just not recognized for enormous blockbuster openings.

    Before “Maverick,” his greatest home debut was in 2005, with Steven Spielberg’s “War of the Worlds,” which opened to $64 million. After that it was “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” with $61 million in 2018. It’s not that his movies do not earn money in the long term: They simply aren’t enormously frontloaded.

    “Top Gun: Maverick” had a particularly lengthy journey to get to the theaters. The sequel to the late Tony Scott’s “Top Gun,” which was launched in 1986, was initially slated to open in the summertime of 2020. Its advertising and marketing marketing campaign technically began again in July 2019. The pandemic received in the best way of these plans, nevertheless, and it was delayed a number of occasions. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and co-produced and co-financed by Skydance, the sequel reportedly price $152 million to make.

    But even because the months, and years, glided by and plenty of different corporations selected to compromise on hybrid releases, Cruise and Paramount didn’t waver on their need to have a significant theatrical launch. A streaming debut was merely not an choice.

    “That was never going to happen,” Cruise said in Cannes. And it is major, with 4,735 North American theaters (a record) showing “Top Gun: Maverick.” It additionally opened in 23,600 places in 62 worldwide markets.

    “This is one of the longest runways for a marketing campaign for any film ever. And it only served to create more excitement around the movie,” stated Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore. “This movie literally waited for the movie theater to come back.”

    The build-up has been simply as flashy, with fighter-jet-adorned premieres on an plane service in San Diego and on the Cannes Film Festival, the place Cruise was additionally given an honorary Palme d’Or, and a royal premiere in London attended by Prince William and his spouse Kate.

    “The feeling you get when you watch this film with an audience, it’s pretty special,” Aronson stated. “The first big screening we had, there was spontaneous applause during the movie.”

    Reviews have been stellar, too, with the movie notching a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences, who have been 58% male, gave it an A+ CinemaScore, in keeping with exit polls.

    The new movie has Cruise reprising the position of Maverick, who returns to the elite aviation coaching program to coach the subsequent technology of flyers, together with Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Monica Barbaro, Greg Tarzan Davis, Danny Ramirez, Lewis Pullman and Jay Ellis. Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm and Val Kilmer, reprising his position from the unique, additionally star.

    “This solidifies the notion that the movie theater is a singular and a vitally important outlet for people,” Dergarabedian stated. “People are looking for a great escape from everything that’s going on in the world right now.”

    “Maverick” is now among the many high pandemic period openings, nonetheless led by “Spider-Man: No Way Home” with $260 million, adopted by “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” with $187 million and “The Batman” with $134 million.

    Notably, “Top Gun: Maverick” is the one non-superhero film within the bunch. It additionally attracted a large swath of age teams to the theater. An estimated 55% of the viewers was over 35.

    “Superhero movies aren’t for everybody. This movie is for everyone and that’s what sets it apart,” Aronson said. “The theatrical exhibition business has challenges ahead of it, but this is a shot in the arm for that.”

    “The Bob’s Burgers Movie” was the one new launch that dared go up towards “Top Gun.” Released by twentieth Century Studios and Disney, the animated pic earned $12.6 million from 3,425 places. It opened in third place, behind “Doctor Strange 2,” which earned $16.4 million in its fourth weekend in theaters.

    “Top Gun” will proceed to primarily have the skies to itself till “Jurassic World: Dominion” opens on June 10.

    “It has a really nice, open marketplace to play,” Dergarabedian stated. “Tom Cruise has always been about consistency. His movies are about the marathon. This is the first movie of his that is sprinting to big box office numbers. Here, he gets the sprint and the marathon.”

    Estimated ticket gross sales for Friday via Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, in keeping with Comscore. Final home figures shall be launched Tuesday.

    1. “Top Gun: Maverick,” $124 million.

    2. “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” $16.4 million.

    3. “The Bob’s Burgers Movie,” $12.6 million.

    4. “Downton Abbey: A New Era,” $5.9 million.

    5. “The Bad Guys,” $4.6 million.

    6. “Sonic the Hedgehog 2,” $2.5 million.

    7. “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” $2.5 million.

    8. “The Lost City,” $1.8 million.

    9. “Men,” $1.2 million.

    10. “F3: Fun and Frustration,” $1 million.

  • Mission: Impossible 7| Tom Cruise-starrer titled ‘Dead Reckoning: Part 1’

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: The seventh instalment of Tom Cruise-led “Mission: Impossible” has obtained an official title. During Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures’ presentation on the ongoing CinemaCon conference, Cruise revealed that the newest movie has been titled “Mission: Impossible 7 – Dead Reckoning: Part 1”.

    The Hollywood star despatched a pre-recorded video for the movie’s presentation from South Africa, the place he’s at the moment filming for the eighth a part of the long-running motion sequence, reported Deadline. The actor, who was standing atop a biplane, stated, “Please enjoy. And hey! Let’s try to have a great summer.”

    The studio then performed a teaser that gave a sneak peak into all of the motion sequences deliberate by the makers, together with one the place Cruise’s Ethan Hunt nostril dives off a cliff whereas on his bike after which free-falls into the abyss.

    Paramount has deliberate the seventh and eighth instalments as two back-to-back movies and they’re anticipated to deliver an finish to the franchise. Both movies are being directed by Christopher McQuarrie, and can introduce new forged members Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Rob Delaney and Indira Varma.

    Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby and Henry Czerny are reprising their characters from the sooner films. “Mission: Impossible 7 – Dead Reckoning: Part 1” will open within the US theatres on July 14, 2023, with the eighth and presumably last film popping out on June 28, 2024.

  • Tom Cruise eyes ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ as closing movie of franchise

    By IANS

    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Tom Cruise is seeing the tip of his missions. The actor, who has portrayed Ethan Hunt for the reason that first movie, reportedly plots ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ as the ultimate installment of the franchise.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cruise, who additionally serves as producer, has begun engaged on the eighth and probably final “M:I” film, with Christopher McQuarrie returning as author and director, studies aceshowbiz.com.

    This element comes as a part of the outlet’s report about Cruise’s dispute with Paramount over the discharge technique of ‘Mission: Impossible VII’.

    According to the web site, the Cruise has lawyered up as he can’t agree with the studio’s plan to provide the seventh installment a 45-day theatrical window, far shorter than his regular three-month run, earlier than streaming on Paramount+.

    “For (Cruise), 45 days is like going day-and-date,” a Paramount supply advised THR.

    “He also felt that setting a date when the movie could be seen on the service would discourage people from going to the theatre.”

    The subject has arisen for the reason that film was nonetheless in manufacturing, nevertheless it stays unsolved as each events reportedly agreed to postpone it till the movie is completed. Cruise, nevertheless, retains holding out the completion of the movie till he hammers out an awesome deal for ‘M:I 8’.

    According to the outlet, “by holding on to the film as a work in progress while working on the eighth, Cruise and his writer-director, Christopher McQuarrie, ensure that Paramount won’t have much luck imposing budget restrictions on what is allegedly the final installment in the franchise.”

    Such technique additionally offers Cruise, who has inventive management, flexibility with respect to the cliffhanger ending of ‘M:I 7’.

    ‘M:I 7’ has been delayed a number of occasions, with the preliminary launch date on July 23, 2021. It is now due out on July 14, 2023.

    As for ‘M:I 8’, it’s scheduled to be launched on June 8, 2024.

  • Kingsley Ben-Adir to headline Bob Marley biopic

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: Paramount has been creating a biopic on the reggae legend Bob Marley with actor Kingsley Ben-Adir because the lead.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, ‘King Richard’ director Reinaldo Marcus Green will helm the mission for Paramount which is able to characteristic ‘One Night in Miami’ star Kingsley Ben-Adir, enjoying the legendary Jamaican artist who was behind iconic tracks like ‘Get Up, Stand Up’, ‘One Love’, and extra.

    ‘King Richard’ author Zach Baylin who was nominated on Tuesday for an Oscar for the Warner Bros. film, will pen the screenplay for Marley’s biopic.

    Ziggy Marley, Rita Marley and Cedella Marley will produce on behalf of Tuff Gong. Robert Teitel will even produce the characteristic that may give attention to the life and profession of the legend who died of most cancers in 1981 at age 36. 

  • Tom Cruise’s subsequent two ‘Mission: Impossible’ movies delayed till 2023 and 2024 

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: The seventh and eighth instalments of the Tom Cruise-led “Mission: Impossible” franchise have now been delayed till 2023 and 2024.

    In a joint assertion, Paramount Pictures and Skydance stated they needed to additional postpone the 2 motion pictures because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

    “After thoughtful consideration, Paramount Pictures and Skydance have decided to postpone the release dates for Mission: Impossible 7 & 8 in response to delays due to the ongoing pandemic,” the businesses stated.

    “Mission: Impossible 7”, wherein Cruise is reprising his position of Ethan Hunt, will now open within the US on July 14, 2023, as a substitute of September 30, 2022.

    Its follow-up, “Mission: Impossible 8”, has moved from July 7, 2023, to June 28, 2024, reported Variety.

    “We look forward to providing moviegoers with an unparalleled theatrical experience,” Paramount Pictures and Skydance stated.

    The manufacturing of “Mission: Impossible 7”, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, has additionally been delayed because of the pandemic.

    The movie will even characteristic Rebecca Ferguson, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Henry Czerny, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby and Angela Bassett.

    Cruise has one other high-profile challenge with Paramount, “Top Gun: Maverick”.

    The film, which is a sequel to Cruise’s 1986 blockbuster, additionally noticed a number of delays.

    It is presently set to be launched within the US on May 27, 2022.

  • Paramount delays launch of ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’, subsequent ‘Star Trek’ film

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Paramount has determined to delay two of its much-awaited movies — “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” and the brand new instalment of “Star Trek”. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts”, which was slated for June 24, 2022, will now launch on June 9, 2023.

    To be directed by Steven Caple Jr of “Creed II” fame, the movie will function the seventh chapter within the blockbuster franchise. Set in Brooklyn, New York within the Nineties, the brand new film will deliver again the acquainted lead hero Optimus Prime, serving as a form of origin story for the character as he arrives on Earth for the primary time and learns to turn out to be a frontrunner.

    The movie will draw from the “Beast Wars” animated collection which targeted on robots who rework themselves into animals versus automobiles. “In The Heights” star Anthony Ramos and “Judas and the Black Messiah” actor Dominique Fishback will play the lead roles within the film.

    Meanwhile, the brand new “Star Trek” film has been pushed to December 22, 2023, from its earlier launch date of June 9, 2023. Matt Shakman, who not too long ago directed “WandaVision” collection, will helm the movie for Paramount.

    Filmmaker JJ Abrams, who directed “Star Trek”, the 2009 function reboot of the cult sci-fi TV collection, is hooked up to provide the brand new mission. Lindsey Beer, who has penned the upcoming “The Kingkiller Chronicle”, and Geneva Robertson-Dworet of “Captain Marvel” fame are on board because the screenwriters.